15 Years After Tiananmen Square
CNN has posted a special section on the fifteen year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest and crackdown.
For me, it's hard to believe that it's been fifteen years since that happened and yet at the same time it seems like a life time ago. I remember thinking, when that protest first started making the news, that it just seemed inevitable that communism would fall soon in China just as it had been falling throughout the world.That seems pretty silly now. Maybe it was silly then, but we have a way of deluding ourselves into believing what we want to believe.
It's interesting to me that we just don't talk much about China these days even though it's hard not to mention them when you start discussing the global economy. Interestingly, one of the articles points out that today's China has an estimated 280 million cell phones and 120,000 lawyers. I'm not exactly sure what that means or what those two numbers have to do with each other, but it seems interesting.
Anybody interested in outsourcing some legal work? hehe. Just a tiny little joke there for my wife. Of course, Al Gore tried to outsource our government to China, but that's a whole different rant for another time.
Okay, I better stop before I really get myself into trouble.
Posted by on 06/03 at 05:26 PM